EP0275144A2 - Méthode de production d'un verre multicellulaire granulaire et verre obtenu par cette méthode - Google Patents

Méthode de production d'un verre multicellulaire granulaire et verre obtenu par cette méthode Download PDF

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EP0275144A2
EP0275144A2 EP88300055A EP88300055A EP0275144A2 EP 0275144 A2 EP0275144 A2 EP 0275144A2 EP 88300055 A EP88300055 A EP 88300055A EP 88300055 A EP88300055 A EP 88300055A EP 0275144 A2 EP0275144 A2 EP 0275144A2
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Akira C/O Kirin Beer Kabushiki Kaisha Nagara
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  • the present invention relates to a method for producing a granular multi-cellular glass (foam glass) and such granular multi-cellular glass produced by the method. More specifically, the present invention relates to a method for producing such glass having high moisture content ratio or water absorption ratio and to a granular multi-cellular glass produced thereby. The present invention also relates to a method for controlling physical properties of the glass and to a granular multi-cellular glass obtained by the control of physical properties thereof.
  • Granular multi-cellular glass or porous glass grain is light in weight and provides heat insulative characterisitics. Further, the glass generally provides low moisture content ratio or low water absorbing property, and is non-combustible with high moldability. Therefore, the granular multi-cellular glass has been widely available for building materials.
  • Such granular multi-cellular glass is produced by, for example, injecting gas into molten glass, or by adding and mixing foaming agent with the molten glass and rapidly cooling the mixture by dropping the mixture into cooling medium as described in Japanese Patent Publication No. 51-18968.
  • such glass is produced by the steps of pulverizing glass, adding forming agent such as carbonate, nitrate and carbon into the pulverized glass, granulating or pelletizing the mixture to a predetermined size, and burning the granulations at a temperature of about from 800 to 1100°C.
  • Cell size in the granular cellular glass is controllable by controlling distribution of sizes of pulverized glass particles and kind and amount of the foaming agents. Further, final grain diameter of the granular glass is also controllable by controlling cooling temperature for the molten foaming glass, granullation or pelletization degree, and burning temperature, etc.
  • the burning temperature is higher than the softening temperature of the glass (about from 710 to 730°C at which the glass has Poise viscosity of 5 X 10 7 ). Therefore, the glass hardly provides water permeability, and almost all blisters or seeds in the glass are independent cells (closed cells). As a result, resultant granular multi- cellular glass provides water absorption or moisture content ratio of only from 5 to 20 % (vol%) after the glass is at a reduced pressure atmosphere and is subjected to water absorption. In this connection, the glass is usable and applicable to a heat insulating member.
  • moisture content ratio has been increased to about 20 to 50 % by adding excessive amount of foaming agent to the glass powders, or by adding 5 to 20 % of silica sand or diatomaceous earth.
  • Each of the pores provides its pore internal volume.
  • the total pore volumes are integrated, and the integrated volume is divided by two.
  • a specific pore diameter corresponding to the half integrated volume is sought.
  • the specific pore diameter is referred to as median pore diameter.
  • mercury pressure is increased from vacuum pressure to 30000 PSla in mercury injecting method. Increased mercury volumes (intrusion volume into pores) are plotted, with respect to each of the diameters of the pores. Then total volume is divided into two having equal volume to each other.
  • the pore diameter at which the two equal volumes can be defined is referred to as the median pore diameter.
  • volume of pores in the porous glass grain having 1 gram in weight is represented by mercury injecting amount into the pores when the mercury pressure increases from its vacuum pressure to 30000 PSla by mercury injection method.
  • an object of the present invention to overcome the above-described drawbacks and to provide an improved granular multi-cellular glass or porous glass grain and a method for producing the same. Still another object of the present invention is to provide such multi-cellular glass grain and the production method thereof in which resultant glass grain has high moisture content ratio with improved fluid permeability and retainability.
  • Still another object of this invention is to provide such glass grain and its production method in which effective liquid can be retained in the glass for a long period of time.
  • Still another object of this invention is to provide a microcarrier formed of the improved multi-cellular glass grain, which microcarrier is capable of immobilization of microbes with sufficient mechanical strength and durability.
  • Still another object of this invention is to provide an improved multi-cellular glass grain and its production method in which physical properties of the glass such as specific gravity and median pore diameter are controllable.
  • the multi-cellular glass is produced by the steps of (1) provisionally obtaining a group of graphical curves each showing the relationship between a specific gravity and a median pore diameter using various pelletized particle diameter as parameters, the particles being obtained by pulverization of a raw glass material, (2) determining desirable specific gravity and median pore diameter (as desirable factors) of a final glass product and delineating a curve which passes through a point determined by these desirable factors, the delineated curve being analogous or parallel with the group of curves; (3) selecting desirable particle diameter which corresponds to the delineated curve; (4) preparing a multi-cellular glass grain by employing a raw material glass having thus selected particle diameter, and burning the glass grain at a condition the same as in the production of glasses which constitute said group of curves, thus prepared glass grain having a surface layer and internal cell walls; (5) dipping thus prepared glass grain in one of water and alkali solution for eluti
  • Analized first is the components eluted from the granular multi-cellular glass (porous glass grain) by dealkali treatment.
  • Prepared were soda-lime glasses and borosilicate glass having the compositions shown in Table 1.
  • the glasses were pulverized so as to have average particle diameter and particle diameter deviations described in Table 1, and the particles were used as raw materials and porous glass samples A-1 through A-4 were obtained each having 100 grams in weight.
  • non-alkali components such as Si0 2 and A1 203 were found in addition to alkali components such as Na 2 0, K 2 0 and CaO, and eluted amounts wee changed in accordance with dipping conditions and particle diameters of the glass raw materials.
  • elution amount of alkali components is far greather than that of non-alkalic components in view of the original glass powder components shown in Table 1. Therefore, by the eluting treatement, it is confirmed that eluted components are mainly alkali components.
  • the glass was subjected to levigation or elutriation for 10 hours to provide glass powders whose average particle dimater was 30 ⁇ m and the deviation value of the diameter was 50 ⁇ m, and 2 % of CaCO s was added as a foaming agent to the glass powders, and the mixture was pelletized.
  • the pelletized mixture was burned at a temperature of 850° C for 100 seconds.
  • Thus prepared sample had an average grain diameter of approximately 5 mm, and size of the blisters was in a range of from 0.02 mm to 0.05 mm. This sample was dipped in hot water having a temperature of 70° C for 8 days.
  • Table 3 shows changes of chemical compositions of the sample before and after dealkali treatment.
  • Table 4 shows changes of the physical properties of the samples before and after the dealkali treatment.
  • moisture content ratio is measured.
  • 5 mh of the sample was provisionally placed in an aspiration filtering bottle having an internal volume of 1 2, and the sample was subjected to decompression for 10 minutes by a vacuum pump, and thereafter, water was poured into the bottle.
  • volume of the granular multi-cellular glass was measured by a pycnometer for preparing 5 m2 of glass, and the glass was put in an aspirating flask for sucking air in blisters of the glass for 10 minutes under vacuum.
  • the eluting treatment can be referred to dealkali or alkali decreasing treatment.
  • Figs. 2(a) and 2(b) are microscopic phtographs showing a surface layer of the granular multi-cellular glass having a grain diameter of 3 mm.
  • Fig. 2(a) shows the state before dealkali treatment
  • Fig. 2(b) after dealkali treatment.
  • the glass before the dealkali treatment has a moisture content ratio of 13 0/ 0 at its surface layer portion.
  • great number of pin holes are formed after the dealkali treatment, and moisture content ratio is increased to 73 %.
  • Figs. 3(a) and 3(b) are microscopic phtographs showing cross-sectional structure of the glass shown in Figs 2(a) and 2 9b). (Figs. 3(a) and 3(b) show states before and after the dealkali treatment.) According to the Figures, large number of pin holes are formed in the glass after the dealkali treatment. It has been also found that increase in pin hole numbers at the surface layer portion of the glass is higher than that at the internal portion thereof.
  • Example 1 glass sample is dipped in hot water for the dealkali treatment.
  • the dealkali treatment is also performed by dipping the glass sample in alkali solution.
  • Prepared were four samples each having chemical compositions the same as that shown in Table 3, and the four samples had initial physical properties the same as one another.
  • Two samples were dipped in sodium carbonate solution (Na 2 COs), and remaining two samples were dipped in water. Changes in moisture content ratio with respect to processing periods are shown in Fig. 4.
  • Samples E, F, G and H were granular multi-cellular glasses each having chemical compositions the same as that shown in Table 3. Samples E-H were processed to proivde physical properties different from one another.
  • the sample I was a clay ball. These samples were subjected to decompression, and water was absorbed in these samples. Thereafter, these samples were placed in the beaker at ambient temperatue of 300 C and humidity of 70%. Water retention ratio with time were measured with respect to these samples. The water retention percentage is percentile ratio of water weight retained in the sample to weight of the sample at its drying state. Test results are shown in Fig. 5.
  • samples E and F provided prolonged water retainability such as about 12 to 14 days, while the samples having low moisture content ratio (sample I-clay ball) rapidly discharged water therefrom for about 1.5 days. That is, the sample E and F provided their maximum water absorbing amounts about 5 to 6 times as large as the maximum water absorbing amount of the clay ball and the samples E and F provided water retaining period of about 10 times as large as that of the clay ball.
  • the glasses were dipped in hot water contained in an autoclave having a temperature of 120° C for 4 hours, and regarding the borosilicate glasses (samples 1-B and 2-B), these were dipped in hot water containing 5 o /o of sodium carbonate (Na 2 0 3 ) contained in an autoclave having a temperature of 120° C for 4 hours.
  • absolute specific gravity was measured by pycnometer method, and moisture content ratio was measured by the method described in EXAMPLE 1.
  • Median pore diameter was measured by pressurizingly injecting mercury (for example, by employing mercury porosimeter)into the pores of the glasses, and more specifically, by using Simazu's poresizer 9305 (product of Micrometric Co.,Ltd., U.S. company).
  • Fig. 6 shows distributions of pore diameters in the sample 1-B shown in Table 6 before and after the dealkali treatment.
  • mercury was successively injected into the porous glass sample, and pore volume relative to each of the pore diameters was presented in an ordinate.
  • the lines A1 and A2 divides the totally integrated area into two regions having areas equal to each other, and the pore diameter size at the line designates the median pore diameter. More specifically, the mercury porosimeter originally defines correspondence betwwen the mercury injection pressures and pore diameters. Mercury is pressurizingly injected into the porous sample at a first pressure, and total mercury intrusion volume V1 is measured.
  • pore diameter is referred to "median pore diameter”.
  • median pore diameters of the sample 1-B before and after the dealkali treatment were 0.11 ⁇ m (abscissa value at the line A1), and 4.16 ⁇ m (abscissa value at the line A2), respectively. Therefore, the median pore diameter was remarkably increased by the dealkali treatment. Further, according to Table 6, moisture content ratio and median pore diameter are critically changed by the dealkali treatment, and it would be understood that the change in median pore diameter is approximately proportional to the change in moisture content ratio.
  • porous glass having small median pore diameter like the sample H can provide low water discharge speed.
  • such glass is not capable of wide range utility since its initial moisture content ratio is low.
  • porous carriers each having physical properties different from one another were prepared for testing water retention percentages.
  • Samples M and N were formed of borosilicate glass whose compositions were the same as that shown in Table 5, and samples O and P were formed of soda-lime glass shown in Table 5.
  • Each of the samples had 5 grams in weight, and was placed in a beaker having an internal volume of 100 m.2 , under an ambient temperature of 15°C and humidity of 50 % so as to measure water retaining percentages in each of the samples. Physical properties of these samples are shown in Table 8, and test results are shown in Fig. 7.
  • initial moisture content ratio of the inorganic carriers is lower than that of the porous glasses (samples M thru P), and water discharge speed from the inorganic carriers is higher than that from the porous glasses (see steep gradient lines Q, R and S in Fig. 7). Therefore, the inorganic carriers do not provide high water retaining percentages, and among the porous glass samples, samples N, O and P provided with low absolute specific gravity, and high moisture content ratio do provide high water retaining characteristic for a long duration of time.
  • the granular multi-cellular glass having prolonged service life is considered to provide the following physical properties:
  • the granular multi-cellular glass is provided with high moisture content ratio and high liquid retainability, such porous glass is available for various use because of its light weight characteristic as well.
  • the multi-cellular glass having the physical properties described above particularly provides prolonged service life in the field of aromatic technique, fertilizer, herbicide, hydroponics, microcarrier for yeast, enzyme and microorganism in biochemical reactor, fermentation accelerator in fermentation works, etc.
  • the glass is placed in a side-arm flask 3, and perfume or other aromatic mateial 4 is dripped in the flask 3 as shown in Fig. 9.
  • vacuum source is connected to a side arm 5 for reducing pressure in the flask 3, liquid absorbing speed into the porous glass is increased.
  • the above described Examples concern increase in moisture content ratio and liquid retainability, and concern investigation of optimum physical properties of the granular multi-cellular glass.
  • the Examples described below concern control of various physical properties. More specifically, in order to produce various porous glasses capable of being used in various kind of technologies, controls of various physical properties in the porous glasses are deemed to be necessary.
  • grain diameter of the porous glass, compression strength, absolute specific gravity(drying state), and pore volume are easily controllable by suitably blending raw materials of the glass, and by controlling foaming and burning process.
  • the multi-cellular glass grain having low moisture content ratio and used as starting material may be known soda-lime glass, borosilicate glass, etc.
  • controlled are specific gravity and median pore diameter of the glass grain by controlling moisture content ratio thereof with dipping the glass in one of water and alkali solution.
  • sodium carbonate solution and sodium hydroxide solution are available.
  • controlled is at least one of temperature of water or alkali solution, pH of the solution and dipping period. By this control, median pore diameter and specific gravity in water are easily and precisely controlled.
  • the granular multi-cellular glass having constant grain diameter, constant compression strength, and constant pore volume, if the conditions of making the starting multi-cellular galss grains are the same in terms of glass compositions, blending, foaming and burning conditions, and more specifically, in terms of kinds of raw glass materials, pulverized glass particle diameter (average particle diameter and particle diameter deviation), amount and kind of foaming agent, burning temperature and burning period.
  • 2.0 wt% of calcium carbonate (CaCO 3 ) was added to the glass particles as foaming agent, and the mixture was granulated.
  • the granulated pellets were burned at a temperature of 800°C for 200 seconds so that granular multi-cellular glasses having grain diameter of 3.0 mm were obtained. Of course, the granular glass provided low moisture content ratio.
  • Physical properties of sample S-1 is shown in Table 9 (S-1 is the glass sample prior to dealkali treatment).
  • pore volume, specific surface area, median pore diameter (the diameter at which total pore volume, i.e., integral value, is divided into equally two volumes), average pore diameter, apparent specific gravity and porosity were measured by a pore sizer No. 9305, product of Micrometric Co., Ltd. in U.S.A., which utilizes mercury injecting method as also described in Example 4.
  • alkali solution allows the multi-cellular glass to have greatly increased moisture content ratio rather than mere hot water. Further, when the samples were dipped in 3.0% of Na 2 CO 3 solution and 1.5 0 /o of NaOH solution for 3 and 6 hours, greater amount of alkali components were eluted from the sample and such sample provided higher moisture content ratio when it was dipped in NaOH rather than dipped in Na 2 COs whose pH value is lower than that of NaOH.
  • Example 2 it can be confirmed that moisture content ratio was increased if the sample was dipped in alkali solution rather than dipped in hot water, if the temperature of the liquids is the same. Further, higher temperature liquid provided higher moisture content ratio, if the kind of liquids is the same.
  • specific gravity in water of the microcarrier should be controlled to be substantially equal to the specific gravity of liquid culture medium on a basis of the relationship between the moisture content ratio and apparent specific gravity in water.
  • 2.5 wt% of calcium carbonate (CaCO s ) was added to the glass particles as foaming agent, and the mixture was granulated.
  • the grains or pellets were then burned at temperature of 870 C for 250 seconds, so that granular multi-cellular glasses (porous glass grain) having grain diameter of 3.0 mm were obtained.
  • Physical properties of the samples B 1 -1 are shown in Table 10.
  • Figs. 14 and 15 similar to the Examples 7 and 8, close mutual relationships are also acknowledged between the moisture content ratio and median pore diameter, between the ratio and specific gravity in water, and between the ratio and apparent specific gravity in water.
  • 2.5 wt O /o of sodium nitrate (NaNOs) was added to the glass particles as foaming agent, and the mixture was granulated.
  • the grains or pellets were then burned at temperature of 810°Cfor 150 seconds, so that obtained were granular multi-cellular glasses (porous glass grains) having grain diameter ranging from 350 to 500 ⁇ m which is available for a microcarrier. Physical properties of the glasses are shown in Table 12 as a sample M-1.
  • Example 10 grain diameter of the sample was extremely small, and linear relationship is acknowleged between the moisture content ratio and the median pore diameter. Further, similar to Examples 7 through 9, close mutual relationships can be found between the moisture content ratio and the median pore diameter, and between the ratio and specific and apparent specific gravities in water as is understood from Fig. 17.
  • Example 7 used the soda-lime glass having the composition the same as that used in Example 10, and Example 8 used the borosilicate glass having the composition the same as that used in Example 9. Between Examples 7 and 10, and between the Examples 8 and 9, it is understood that various combinations coud be obtained in the relationships among the median pore diameter, specific gravity in water and apparent specific gravity in water relative to the moisture content ratio by changing or controlling successive production steps starting from raw material blending or mixing step and terminating by the foaming and burning step.
  • Fig. 18 shows the relationship between density of sodium carbonate for the dealkali treatment and moisture content ratio with respect to the Samples M-4, M-9 and M-10 shown in Table 12. These samples provided grain diameters ranging from 350 to 500 ⁇ m as described above, and were subjected to dealkali treatment by dipping into sodium carbonate solutions each having density different from one another at temperature of 120 0 C for 1 hour. (see conditions described at rightmost column of Samples M-4, M-9 and M-10, in which the sample M-4 is considered to be dipped in sodium carbonate solution having density of zero percent.) According to Fig. 18, the increase in moisture content ratio is noticeable by the increase in density of Na 2 C0 3 solution.
  • Fig. 19 shows the relationship between dipping period for dealkali treatment and the moisture content ratio with respect to samples M-1 to M-3, M-5 to M-6, and M-7 to M-8 in which densities of sodium carbonate are parameters.
  • grain diameter was ranging from 350 to 500 ⁇ m as described above, and dipping solution temperature was 80° C.
  • moisture content ratio was gradually increased when the density of alkali solution becomes high and dipping period is prolonged. If the sample was dipped in hot water, the moisture content ratio was gradually and linearly increased with the increase of the dipping period.
  • varous dealkali treatments were performed to the samples S 2 -0 in accordance with conditions described at rightmost column in Table 13, so that samples S 2 -A, S 2 -B and S 2 -C were obtained.
  • Three kinds of solutions for the dealkali treatment were prepared, i.e., 50/0 of Na 2 CO ⁇ solution, 5% of HCI solution, and hot water. Each of the solutions had temperature of 80°C and these samples were dipped for 12 hours. Physical properties of these samples are also shown in Table 13.
  • Fig. 22 shows the relationship between the specific gravity in water and median pore diameter, and in the curves of the graph, particle diameters in pulverizing step are given as parameters. As is apparent from Fig. 22, two curves are directed substantially in parallel with each other. Further, median pore diameter with respect to the samples having small particle diameter (Example 11) . in pulverizing step was generally lower than that to the sampkles having large particle diameter (Example 7) in pulverizing step. Furthermore, specific gravity in water is increased in case of the employment of particles having small diameter rather than that having large diameter. In other words, the sample formed of relatively large diameter particles in pulverizing step provides relatively large median pore diameter and low specific gravity in water in comparison with the sample formed of relatively small diameter particles in pulverizing step.
  • the present invention increases moisture content ratio by the dealkali treatment in whch granular multi-cellular glass having initially low moisture content ratio are dipped into water or alkali solution.
  • controlled is the various physical properties such as median pore diameter, specific gravity in water and apparent specific gravity in water those being closely related to the moisture content ratio. Such physical properties are easily and accurately controllable, so that multi-cellular glass grains according to the present invention are available for various kind of use.
  • the multi-cellular glass or porous glass according to the present invention is particularly available as a microbial hold-back carrier, i.e., a carrier for immobilizing microbe.
  • the porous glass is therefore, capable of performing immobilization of yeast, and is applicable for a method of producing liquor employing yeast immobilized in the microcarrier.
  • the porous glass provided with not less than 50 % of moisture content ratio is usable as the microcarrier.
  • the highly porous glass according to the present invention is provided with a great number of blisters or cells at its surface layer and its interior. And almost all the blisters or cells are considered to be open cells in which neighbouring cells are in fluid communication with each other through the micropores or pinholes, and high moisture content ratio is provided such as not less than 50 %. In the cell walls, a plurality of pin holes are formed, which structure is deemed to further enhance the moisture content ratio.
  • the microcarrier should preferrably provide median pore diameter of 0.4 to 10 ⁇ m, and pore volume of 0.5 to 2.0 ml/g.
  • microcarrier Various shapes are applicable as the microcarrier. However, granular shape is typical configuration. In this case, grain diameter implies maximum diameter of the grain in the description below.
  • microbe can be immobilized to the microcarrier according to the present invention.
  • yeasts are the typical microbe for producing liquor or alcoholic drinks.
  • other kinds of microbe are also immobilized in the microcarrier in the manner the same as that of yeast.
  • Immobilized microbe in the present invention generally provide high immobilization ratio and low degree of desorption or release from the microcarrier.
  • the yeast not less than 10 6 cellsl cm 2 of yeasts per unit surface area can be immobilized, and only not more than 1 % of detachment from the carrier is obtainable (measuring method will be described later).
  • the immobilized microbe according to the present invention can be employed in various use. For example, if immobilized yeast is used, liquor can be produced by using various types of sugars as substrate. Further, if immobilized Zymomonas bacteria is used, ethanol can be produced by using sugar, particularly blackstrap molasses, as substrate.
  • Fermentation starting liquid contains substrate of yeast employed.
  • the liquid contains solution or dispersive liquid which contains sugar as substrate, and specifically, wort in case of the production of beer and whiskey, fruit juice in case of the production of wine, and unrefined sake (a portion excluding yeast) in case of the production of Japanese sake and Japanese shochu (low class distilled spirits).
  • yeasts can be applied to the highly porous glass grains according to the present invention.
  • Saccharomyces cerevisiae or other ordinary kind of yeast for liquor production are available.
  • the highly porous glass grain according to the present invention is used as the microcarrier.
  • the porous glass should provide median pore diameter of 1.0 to 50 ⁇ m, preferably 20 to 40 ⁇ .Lm, pore volume of 1.0 to 5.0 ml/g, preferably 2.0 to 3.0 ml/g, moisture content ratio of 50 to 90 o/o, preferably 50 to 85 %, and bulk specific gravity of 0.1 to 0.5, preferably 0.2 to 0.35.
  • moisture content ratio and bulk specific gravity are determinative by the median pore diameter and pore volume.
  • Size and configuration of the porous glass is changeable in accordance with the kinds of fermentation reactor, etc.
  • Various kinds of configurations are available such as grain shape, plate shape, rod shape having rectangular or circular cross-section, honeycomb shape or other polygonal shape.
  • grain shape having diameter of 0.5 to 15 mm, preferably 1.5 to 15 mm, and most preferably, 2 to 6 mm. If the grain is not completely spherical shape, the diameter referred herein is the maximum diameter.
  • the multi-cellular glass or porous glass is formed of silica glass, soda-lime glass, aluminoborosilicate glass, borosilicate glass, aluminosilicate glass or lead glass.
  • soda-lime glass is preferably selected.
  • Method of producing highly porous glass is described in the foregoing Examples. For example, granular multi-cellular glass havng moisture content ratio of 5 to 20 % produced by the conventional method is dipped in hot water or alkali solution so as to eluate soluble alkalic component and silica from the glass, so that micropore or pinholes are formed at a surface layer and walls of the closed cells in the glass.
  • highly porous glass is also produced by mixing glass powders with 5 to 10 % of foaming agent and metal oxide having high melting point such as alumina, silica and zirconia, burning the mixture and then immediately cooling the burned mixture as disclosed in Japanese patent publication No. 55-340 and Japanese Patent Application Pubication (kokai) No. 61-6141.
  • Attachment or immobilization of the yeast to the highly porous glass is conducted by contacting the glass with the yeast suspension for a predetermined period of time.
  • Any kinds of dispersive medium is available for suspension of the yeast unless the medium causes halmful effect in view of food health sanitation and unless the medium affects activation of yeast.
  • brewer's raw material liquid, fermented liquid, water and mixture thereof are applicable.
  • Population of yeast in the yeast suspension is suitably controlled so as to obtain predetermined population of the immobilized yeasts.
  • the population of yeast in the yeast suspension is set higher than that of the immobilized yeasts.
  • yeasts can be attached to the porous glass with culturing and multiplicating the yeast in the dispersive medium.
  • initial population of yeast in yeast suspension can be set at low level.
  • Contacting period between the porous glass and the yeast suspension is about one to two days. Even if the period is prolonged to more than two days, population of immobilized yeasts is not so increased, since the population is dependent primarily on physical properties of the porous glass such as pore volume, median pore diameter, etc.
  • multiplication period should also have to be considered.
  • Various manners of contact between the porous glass and the yeast suspension can be conceivable as long as sufficient contact therebetween is achievable.
  • the yeast is to be attached to the porous glass grain
  • the glass grain is dipped in the suspension and is left as it is, or is agitated.
  • porous glass grains are filled in a cylindrical column, and yeast suspension is circulated through the column. Detatled method for immobilization of yeast will be described later.
  • the fermentation starting liquid is subjected to fermentation with contacting the liquid with the immobilized yeast as described above.
  • various types of processes can be conceivable.
  • fermentation starting liquid is supplied in batch system to a reactor in which immobilized yeast in the porous glass grain is used as a fixed bed, non-fixed bed or fluidized-bed.
  • the liquid is continuously supplied in a single circulation or plurality of circulations into the reactor. Details of these bio-reactor processes are disclosed in "Enzyme Engineering” published by Tokyo Chemistry Coterie co-authored by Saburo Fukui, Ichiro Chihata, and Shuichi Suzuki, or "Biotech. And Bioeng. 231813-25 (1981) co-authored by D.
  • Furthe, fermentation or other conditions according to the present invention would be the same as that of the conventional conditions unless otherwise provided.
  • Resultant fermentation liquid may be liquor.
  • the liquor is preferrably further subjected to aging or maturation for obtaining final product. Detailed Examples will be described below.
  • Yeast release or desorption percentage from the porous glass samples are measured by the following procedures:
  • a cylindrical cage having inner diameter of 33 mm and depth of 95 m and provided with quadrate mesh having each side length of 1.5mm was disposed within and coaxial with a beaker having internal volume of 500 ml. In this disposition, 2 cm distance was provided between the bottom of the cage and the beaker bottom. 15 numbers of porous glass samples in which yeast was immobilized were put into the cage, and 400 ml of water was poured in the beaker and the water was agitated at agitation speed of 700 r.p.m., for 48 hours by using a stirrer bar having an axial length of 5 cm.
  • yeast release percentage Z(%) is represented by the following formula
  • Immobilized yeast obtained in Part 2 above was used to produce beer.
  • 200 ml of wort having controled sugar percentage of 11.0° P was flowed in a measuring cylinder having an internal volume of 250 ml, and 30 ml of immobilized yeast carrying sample 2 shown in Table 15 was added in the wort.
  • the mixture was maintained as it is at temperature of 80 C for 50 hours, and then batch type beer brewage was carried out. Characteristics of resultant beer are shown in Table 16.
  • Immobilized yeast carrying samples 3 shown in Table 15 were filled in a cylindrical column having inner diameter of 3.5 cm and depth of 30 cm. Then wort having controlled sugar percentage of 11.0 0 P and temperature of 8 0 C was poured through the column by every 10 ml per hour, so that continuous beer brewage was carried out. In this brewage, immobilized yeast carrying porous glass sample provided sufficient strength and durability, and beer having characteristics shown in Table 17 can be produced in stabilized fashion for more than 10 days.
  • borosilicate glass having composition shown in Table 5.
  • the glass was pulverized so as to provide average particle diameter of 22.0 gm. 3 % of CaC0 3 was added to the glass particles as foaming agent, and the mixture was granulated so as to provide average pellets diameter of 2.00 to 2.38 mm.
  • the pellets were heated at temperature of 870° C for 200 seconds, so that multi-cellular glass grains were produced.
  • glass grains were subjected to dealkali treatment in the manner the same as that described in Example 1. That is, the glass grains were dipped in 30/o of NaOH solution (120°C) in an autoclave having temperature of 120° C for 4 hours.
  • highly porous glass Samples 9 and 10 havng physical properties shown in Table 18 were obtained.
  • Table 18 methods of measuring star-marked properties were the same as those in Table 14 (Example 13).
  • Zymomonas mobilis (ATCC 10988) was suspended in liquid culture medium having pH of 6 to 7 and which contains 1.0 w/v% of yeast extract and 10.0 w/v% of sucros so as to provide concentration of Zymomonas mobilis of 1.8 X 10 6 cells/ml.
  • this suspension about 5 % (w/v) of Samples 9 and 10 were dipped and were stationarily cultrued for 24 hours at temperature of 30°C so as to immobilize Zymomonas mobilis into the Samples. Cells numbers of immobilized Zymomonas mobilis are shown in Table 19.
  • highly porous glass provides high strength and durability and is capable of being used as a microcarrier.
  • the highly porous glass is formed with a plurality of pinholes or micropores having diameter of 0.3 to 2000 ⁇ m at its interior portion as well as its outer surface. Therefore, microorganism such as yeasts can be multiplicated and fixed even at the internal portion of the glass addition to the outer surface portion thereof. Accordingly, higly concentrated attachment of the microbe to the porous glass carrier is obtainable regardless of the employment of cross-linking agent. Further, microbe cell numbers can be controlled in variety of ranges by suitably selecting median pore diameter and pore volume of the porous glass.

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